Matt Visser: Technical Reports
Technical Reports
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Note: These are articles, essays, and reports that for one reason or
another have never formally been published.
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Note: The e-print archive came online in August 1991. Almost all my
technical reports from this date on can be accessed, in e-print form,
via the word-wide-web.
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12. Cosmography: Extracting the Hubble series from the supernova data.
(with Celine Cattoen)
e-Print: gr-qc/0703122
This article has now been split in two, and used as the basis for:
- "Cosmographic Hubble fits to the supernova data"
(with Celine Cattoen)
Physical Review D78 (2008) 063501.
- "The Hubble series: Convergence properties and redshift variables"
(with Celine Cattoen)
e-Print: arXiv:0710.1887 [gr-qc]
Classical and Quantum Gravity 24 (2007) 5985-5998.
11. Massive phonon modes from a BEC-based analogue model
(with Silke Weinfurtner)
e-Print Archive:
cond-mat/0409639
This article has now been expanded and used as the basis for:
- "Massive Klein--Gordon equation from a BEC-based analogue spacetime"
(with Silke Weinfurtner)
e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0506029
Physical Review D72 (2004) 044020.
10. Universality of the subsolar mass distribution from critical gravitational collapse
(with Nicolas Yunes)
e-Print Archive:
astro-ph/0404434
9. Power-laws from critical gravitational collapse: The mass distribution of subsolar objects
(with Nicolas Yunes)
e-Print Archive:
astro-ph/0403336
8. Comment on ``Dimensional and dynamical aspects of the Casimir effect:
understanding the reality and significance of vacuum energy''.
(with Francesco Belgiorno and Stefano Liberati)
e-Print Archive:
hep-th/0010040
[Brief comment not intended for formal publication.]
7. Effective potential for classical field theories subject to stochastic noise.
(with David Hochberg, Carmen Molina-París, and Juan Pérez-Mercader)
e-Print Archive:
cond-mat/9904207
This report has been subsumed into the two published papers:
6. Acoustic propagation in fluids: An unexpected example of Lorentzian geometry.
e-Print Archive:
gr-qc/9311028
This report has now been expanded into a full-length article.
The expanded article has been published in
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Pre-arXiv technical reports
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5. Wick rotation for generic curved spacetimes.
Washington University preprint: Wash U HEP--91/70.
[Based on an essay that was awarded an honorable mention in the 1991 Essay
Competition sponsored by the Gravity Research Foundation.]
4. Return of the Wheeler wormhole.
Washington University Report, 1990.
[This essay was awarded an honorable mention in the 1990 Essay Competition
sponsored by the Gravity Research Foundation.]
3. Wormholes and interstellar travel.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA--UR--89--1008.
[This essay was awarded an honorable mention in the 1989 Essay Competition
sponsored by the Gravity Research Foundation.]
2. Gravitational fields and the Casimir energy.
(with Steve Blau and Andreas Wipf)
Los Alamos Report LA--UR--88--1542.
[This essay was awarded an honorable mention in the 1988 Essay Competition
sponsored by the Gravity Research Foundation.]
1. A guide to data in elementary particle physics.
(as part of the Berkeley Particle Data Group collaboration)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Report, LBL--90 (Revised), UC--34D,
September 1986.
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